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Article content It was on Wednesday, March 11, 2020, exactly one year ago, that the director general of The World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanon Ghebreyesus, came to the podium to give a media briefing. From the moment he began his address it was audibly evident that his words had an ominous overtone. “There are now more than 118,000 cases in 114 countries,” said the director general, “and 4,291 people have lost their lives. Thousands more are fighting for their lives in hospitals.�...

Winnipeg Free Press Speiriscope By: Doug Speirs  | Posted: 7:00 PM CST Friday, Jan. 22, 2021 Winnipeg Free Press It sounds like the name of a Hollywood thriller — The Hunt for Patient Zero. The phrase "patient zero" has been on the minds and lips of much of the world as the search continues for the first documented human case of the COVID-19 virus that has so far claimed more than two million lives around the globe, incl...

What Missteps During the Spanish Flu Pandemic Can Teach Us About Celebrating Christmas Safely During COVID-19 Stay home this holiday season and save the big family reunion for after the Coronavirus vaccine next year COVID-19 is the first modern pandemic since the great influenza pandemic of 1918, commonly known as the Spanish flu. While there is considerable variation in calculations of that global death toll (estimates range from 17 to 100 million) even the lowest estimates put the fatality ra...